Birmingham City fans were left as frustrated as Gianfranco Zola and the players at St Andrew’s on Saturday as Nottingham Forest left with a point and a clean sheet.

There were, however, shoots of positivity, elements of the afternoon that were pleasing and promising.

Some Blues supporters accepted that the players were slowly adapting to Zola’s demands, but were still a little blunt up top.

They also welcomed the return of Craig Gardner.

Craig Gardner

Some of the reaction from our Facebook page below...

Lee Woodward: Better performance today deserved the win, we need another striker to help juke.

Gardner played well when he came on, trying to stay positive, we’ve had a bad run, you never know we could go on a good run long season lots of twists and turns to come.

Players still to bring in during the window as the song goes don’t stop believing!!!! KRO

Birmingham City's Che Adams

Richard Wilkinson: Simple: Players not good enough to play the way the manager wants and manager not good enough to adapt his tactics to play the way that suits the limited talents of the players at his disposal.

Stephen Harley: I personally enjoyed the football we played today, forest were hard to break down and we were unlucky not to win. Kro

David Oldham: Had not been down since rowett had got sack... thought id try today. Conclusion: we looked ok some nice free flowing football. Created lots of space but didnt punish forest.